As one warm October day unfolds, the sleepy town of Buhl, Idaho will never be the same. A fish farmer finds his crop destroyed, a couple of kids are playing an unusual game in the sun-dappled fields, and after a wild party a sleepless teenager is harboring an awful secret….
Acting
Kyle Gallner's haunted thousand-yard stare that says everything unsaid.
Cinematography
Magic hour Idaho wheat fields that look beautiful and wrong.
Writing
Three storylines that collide in ways you don't see coming.
Director
Jaffe Zinn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Jaffe Zinn grew up near Buhl, Idaho and shot in his actual hometown using locals as extras — the diner waitress really worked there.
Part of a forgotten 2010s wave of rural American indie cinema (Winter's Bone, Martha Marcy May Marlene) that treated red states as complex rather than caricature.